Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,714 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia (1885- )
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Langston Hughes’ Visit to the Soviet Union (1932-1933)
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Etta Zuber Falconer (1933-2002)
Leslie Wildcat Carter
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Leslie “Wildcat” Carter (1909-1985)

Explore Global African History

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Quibdo, Colombia (1648- )
Steve Biko memorial, 1977
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(1971) SASO Resolution on Black Theology
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Henri Christophe (1767-1820)
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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
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The Black Diaspora in Israel, 1965 to 2011
Fighting For Freedom, Fighting Against the Bomb Book Cover
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Fighting For Freedom, Fighting Against the Bomb: African Americans and the Campaign for a Nuclear-Free World, 1945-
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Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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11/26/2021 – Executive Director – Seattle, Washington